Oh they are. No TPM no support for Windows 11, you'll need a new CPU.
A TPM is typically not built-in to the CPU on x86 machines. It's typically an i2c bus peripheral.
Yeah, I think a significant point that some may be missing here is that "repairable" ≠ "upgradable".
If this is true, That sucks, and Apple is being #@¥&#& for doing that to its customers. I want the right to upgrade my own stuff just as much as I want the right to repair it.
Yep, I think this every single time a company claims any green credential.
might i add: ...so that other people can sell people like us fonds-based insurance products that will make us more money if we buy more stuff from those companies that keep trying to make us buy even more stuff that we actually don't need.
Why don’t people just get the machine repaired instead of throwing it into landfill?
I imagine it's mostly because of unreasonable costs, but also because manufacturers set limits on the age of the machines they will repair. You could go to a third party repair shop if your machine allows parts to be replaced, but I don't personally know of one that I could go to.
Um, because in recent time, they are being designed in such a way that makes them not repairable. When everything is soldered together on the motherboard, when one part goes, the whole thing goes. Could you imagine having a car, where if one part broke, you couldn’t replace it and had to throw the whole car away because all the parts were welded together inside? That’s what they are doing with computers these days…..
How long, on average, does Apple obsolete a product and no longer provide repair services?
